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BEIJING Cam Atkinson Salute to Service Jersey , Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- China will continue to open its forex market and let the market decide exchange rates, a senior official said on Wednesday.
"We will not change the direction of opening up and will make more efforts in the currency and finance sectors," said Lu Lei, deputy director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE).
Lu said the Chinese market is immature as it is transforming and the situation will be changed through opening up. The authorities will encourage more domestic companies to go global and welcome more foreign companies join domestic market players.
China's central bank announced Monday that it had scrapped reserve requirements of 20 percent for financial institutions settling foreign exchange forward yuan positions.
Meanwhile, the central bank's substantial supervision of reserves put aside by foreign financial institutions was also loosened.
The move is expected to make it cheaper for companies and investors to buy dollars while selling the yuan, and thereby help ease the pace of the Chinese currency's recent rally, analysts said.
The central parity rate of the yuan continued to weaken against the U.S. dollar after China relaxed control on capital outflows and the dollar rebounded from last week's drop.
The central parity rate of the yuan weakened 105 basis points to 6.5382 against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday, according to China Foreign Exchange Trade System.
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NAIROBI, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan police have arrested five suspects, among them three foreigners, in an ongoing anti-terror crackdown across the country following an Al-Shabaab attack on a university that have left 148 dead, officials said on Monday.
An police officer, who didn't give his name, said four men were arrested on Sunday night on the suspicion of planning a terror attack, while a Yemeni national is also among the arrests.
The four, a Spanish, a Ugandan and two Kenyans, were arrested at a mall as they were holding a meeting, he said.
"A couple who seated next to the suspects' table called police after they heard some of the four's conversation. The couple said they heard the four men discuss plans," the officer said.
"The two Kenyans say they have recently converted to Islam, while the Spanish claims he has been here since 2008," he said, adding the suspects have been handed to the anti-terrorism police unit for further questioning.
The officer said the Yemeni national is a language student who has been frequenting Kenya and Tanzania, and was arrested in the University of Nairobi's Lower Kabete campus hostels.
The arrest came as security has been tightened in several parts of the country, following the Al-Shabaab attack in northern Kenya.
Police have identified one of the attackers killed by security forces as the son of a chief in Mandera County. The local chief confirmed his son might have joined the Al-Shabaab militant group.
Syrian opposition activists and militant websites say a push by an alliance of rebel groups and al-Qaida-linked militants to open a new front with government forces in Aleppo has failed.
The activists and the websites reported on Monday that the rebels and militants retreated from positions they seized near a cement factory a day earlier on the southwestern outskirts of the city.
The attempt was spearheaded by Syria's rebranded al-Qaida branch, which now goes under the name of Fath al-Sham. It was formerly known as the Nusra Front.
Fierce fighting began on Sunday and lasted for hours around key army positions at the cement factory. Aleppo has become the focal point of the war.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 35 rebels were killed in the fighting.
The eldest son of late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, committed suicide on Thursday after being treated for months for depression, Cuban state-run media reported.
Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart, son of Cuba's President Fidel Castro
"Diaz-Balart, who had been attended by a group of doctors for several months due to a state of profound depression, committed suicide this morning," Cubadebate website said.
Castro, 68, also known as "Fidelito" because of how much he looked like his father, had initially been hospitalized for depression and then continued treatment outside of hospital.
A nuclear physicist who studied in the former Soviet Union, he had been working as a scientific counselor to the Cuban Council of State and Vice-president of the Cuban Academy of Sciences at the time of his death.
His father, who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States during the Cold War, died just over a year ago, on Nov. 26, 2016, aged 90.
Agencies
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